The chemicals mainly include organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals and vegetable oils and animal fats. The main types of organic chemicals include ethylene, ethylene dichloride, vinyl chloride monomer, styrene monomer, ethylene glycol, ethylene cyanide, benzene, methyl tert-butyl ether, etc., accounting for about 46% of the Marine volume of chemicals. The types of inorganic chemicals mainly include phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, etc., accounting for about 15% of the Marine volume of chemicals. Vegetable oils and animal fats account for about 25 percent of the chemicals shipped by sea.
In addition to the above categories of goods that need to be transported by chemical carriers, other chemicals with large freight volume include lubricating oil and syrup, etc. The annual sea freight volume of lubricating oil is about 6 million tons, while the annual sea freight volume of syrup is over 7 million tons. China is a great shipping country with great potential to develop the maritime transport of chemicals. With the rise of China's economy in the world, the maritime transport of chemicals in China will also have a leap across The Times.